'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 25.3.36 Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair. 1. Minutes of last read + approved. [...] 6. Charles Stansfield read us one or two extracts from Halliday Sutherland�s �Arches of the Years�. [...] 7. Rosamund Wallis followed with Norah Warne�s [i.e Nora Waln�s] �House of Exile�, giving us a telling description of an aristocratic Chinese household[...]. 8. F. E. Pollard then gave us a picture of the personality and work of Russell Pasha from �The last plague of Egypt� — the drug traffic. 9. R. H. Robson gave us a reading from �The Anglo Saxons�, the very recent work of R. H. Hodgkin of Queen�s College, Oxford, a Leightonian of the first generation. [Many of the XII Book Club members were associated with Leighton Park School.] 10. Finally Ethel Stevens read two or three picturesque passages from Duveen�s Collections and Recollections.'
